Pitt Bar Links

1953

Beginning of publication of the Obras completas as a set of individual volumes, under the direction of José Edmundo Clemente. Roger Caillois translates some of the stories of El Aleph into French.

Locations

Borges continues living at Calle Maipú 994, CABA.

Historical Context

Peronist masses set the exclusive Jockey Club afire.

Books

Historia de la eternidad. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1953. 157 pp. [Revised and expanded edition of 1936, with the addition of a preface and the essays "El tiempo circular" and "La metáfora." This book inaugurates the Obras completas series.]